![]() He tells it with observant everyday realism he's like Stephen King, dealing in the supernatural and yet alert to the same human details as mainstream writers. This story could have been simplified into a - well, into the plot of one of Elijah Price's old comic books. Glass." Why does he want to find his opposite, an unbreakable man? The question lurks beneath every scene. He is quietly menacing, formidably intelligent, and uses a facade of sophistication and knowledge to conceal anger that runs deep: He is enraged that his bones break, that his body betrays him, that he was injured so often in grade school that the kids called him "Mr. The Jackson character is not an everyman. ![]() In both films, Shyamalan trusts the audience to pay attention, and makes use of Bruce Willis' everyman quality, so we get drawn into the character instead of being distracted by the surface. If the earlier film seemed mysteriously low-key until an ending that came like an electric jolt, this one is more fascinating along the way, although the ending is not quite satisfactory. Night Shyamalan, is in its own way as quietly intriguing as his " The Sixth Sense." It doesn't involve special effects and stunts, much of it is puzzling and introspective, and most of the action takes place during conversations. He has spent a long time looking for an unbreakable man, and his logic is plain: "If there is someone like me in the world, shouldn't there be someone at the other end of the spectrum?" He even had broken bones when he emerged from the womb. Elijah has been sick a lot of days in his life. ![]() Jackson), who runs a high-end comic book store with a priceless stock of first editions. The question originally came to him in an unsigned note.
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